As Seen On TV!
Apparently, there was some sort of Ginsu Knife Obama infomercial on the teevee tonight that I missed because, frankly, life’s too short. Oh, and I was mildly afraid it would be akin to that famous scene from Alan J. Pakula’s Parallax View. Most important, basketball season has begun and I’m already cursing the sports-injury Gods .
Still, OC alum Mark Hemingway has a rundown of the stirring imagery, mellifluous speechifying and Vaseline-lensed cinematography for the National Review’s blog, The Corner.
As for the format of the special itself, aesthetically it was a bit nauseating with all the soft focus and generically uplifing music constantly swelling in and out. As for the content, I’m sorry it’s not that I don’t care about those experiencing hardship — quite the contrary — but the last thing that should be driving America’s voting habits is a half-hour of Manipulative Portraits of Downtrodden Victims of Shadowy Governmental Forces.
This is a nice point! Shadowy Forces as manipulative rhetorical device is bad! Portraits of Downtrodden Victims are trite!
Surely, the McCain/Palin campaign would never sink to such tactics.
